Bug 169777 - Self-enlargening number in a list, editing an ooxml Word document
Summary: Self-enlargening number in a list, editing an ooxml Word document
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.3.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: DOCX-Bullet-Number-Outline-Lists
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Reported: 2025-12-01 09:17 UTC by Danat
Modified: 2025-12-01 16:29 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Video (3.89 MB, video/mp4)
2025-12-01 09:18 UTC, Danat
Details
File in the video (21.06 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-12-01 09:18 UTC, Danat
Details
File in the video 1.1 (21.05 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-12-01 15:52 UTC, Danat
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Description Danat 2025-12-01 09:17:45 UTC
Description:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PZIDHwjKWd5sGYoJlr6qINBWVVCA4oMU?usp=sharing

Steps to Reproduce:
1.It's too difficult to explain in steps, I refuse to. Please watch the video
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Expected Results:
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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

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Comment 1 Danat 2025-12-01 09:18:12 UTC
Created attachment 204364 [details]
Video
Comment 2 Danat 2025-12-01 09:18:39 UTC
Created attachment 204365 [details]
File in the video
Comment 3 V Stuart Foote 2025-12-01 15:28:20 UTC
Please save a copy of the modified OOXML Word document and post it along with attachment 204365 [details]

Looking at the listing in the original, when you go to make edits you are adding an additional paragraph between the two existing numbered list items (the description and that Web URI), which when deleted is modifying the paragraph style of the description. Can't tell yet if the w:lang w:val="en-US" being changed or that a document PS--not from the original "Copilot' list items--is being applied when edited.

Also demonstrates why we always recommend working in ODF Writer, rather than OOXML Word for your document manipulation. The sytle/formatting control is more precise for ODF.
Comment 4 V Stuart Foote 2025-12-01 15:30:43 UTC
Extracted from OOXML archive

Document prepared with:

LibreOffice/25.8.3.2$Windows_X86_64 LibreOffice_project/8ca8d55c161d602844f5428fa4b58097424e324e</Application>
<AppVersion>15.0000<
Comment 5 Danat 2025-12-01 15:52:25 UTC
Created attachment 204369 [details]
File in the video 1.1
Comment 6 Danat 2025-12-01 15:54:19 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3)
> Please save a copy of the modified OOXML Word document and post it along
> with attachment 204365 [details]
> 
> Looking at the listing in the original, when you go to make edits you are
> adding an additional paragraph between the two existing numbered list items
> (the description and that Web URI), which when deleted is modifying the
> paragraph style of the description. Can't tell yet if the w:lang
> w:val="en-US" being changed or that a document PS--not from the original
> "Copilot' list items--is being applied when edited.
> 
> Also demonstrates why we always recommend working in ODF Writer, rather than
> OOXML Word for your document manipulation. The sytle/formatting control is
> more precise for ODF.

I attached it. I don't use Word, I don't have an MS Office license. Everything is totally in LOffice
Comment 7 V Stuart Foote 2025-12-01 16:29:34 UTC
OK, so in the modified document you've pasted the replacement text with formatting, and that ends-up with the list item in 'Heading1' style, and an assigned 24 point size. For the unmodified list entries they remain in 'Normal' style with no size assignment.

You can edit the 'document.xml' (replace Heading1 with Normal and remove the w:sz w:val="24" stanzas) then restore it to the zip archive to correct the incorrectly pasted style.

Should be careful about Pasting -> Special "as unformatted text" when replacing text.